Street-car.



No. 783,449. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. W. P. MICHEL.

STREET GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG.17| 1904.

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WILLIAM P. MICHEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STREET-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 783,449, dated February28, 1905.

Application filed August 1'7, 1904. Serial No. 220,999-

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. IVIICHEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, (Manhattan,) county and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Street-(Jars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement upon Letters Patent No.744,780, granted to me November 24, 1903. That patent describes an opencar in which the handles are placed forward of each seat at the sidewhere the passengers dismount in lieu of being placed opposite the endsof each seat. In this way a passenger on leaving the car is not apt toswing ofi' facing rearward and accidents are prevented; but by removingthe handles from the ends of the seat the latter is left unprotected;and the object of the present invention is to so guard such ends as toprevent passengers, and especially children, from falling by slippingsidewise ofi the seat.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal section throughpart of a car embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof withthe posts, arms, and brackets at the opposite side omitted; Fig. 3, asection on line 3 3, Fig. 1, showing such posts, arms, and brackets atthe opposite side. Fig. 4 is a detail of the bracket; and Fig. 5, a viewsimilar to Fig. 3, showing the backs of the seats reversed.

The letter A represents an open street-car provided with'the usualtransverse rows of seats or benches a. At diagonally opposite corners ofeach bench at is arranged a post 6, carrying handle 6, such post andhandle being thus placed in front of the bench next back at the right oregress side of the car, all as described in Patent No. 7 44,7 80,hereinbefore referred to. From each of the two posts 6 pertaining toeach bench projects an arm 0, such arms extending in opposite directionsfrom the posts toward the center of the seat. The

back d of the bench is provided at its ends with a pair of brackets d,that extend both in the same direction, Figs. 1 and 2, and are tween thebracket proper and the seat a, Fig.

2. In other words, the guard (i extends from the pivot 0Z firstdownwardly to the seat a, thence backwardly along the seat, and thenceupwardly to the main body of the bracket d. At the top an arm-rest dextends from the pivot d to the main body of the bracket. Thus it willbe seen that the top and bottom of the bracket are of differentconstruction and that while the top forms a convenient armrest thebottom forms a guard that protects the seat in such a manner that thepassengers cannot be jolted off the same. The brackets cl at the leftside of the car, which is closed by the usual horiZontally-slidable rail0, are provided with their guards 0Z on top in lieu of at the bottom,Fig. 3. Thus when the backs are swung around and the travel of the caris reversed these upper guards will be swung down to assume their properposition below the brackets d at the open side of the car, Fig. 5.

What I claim is- In a car, the combination with a transverse benchhaving a post at diagonal opposite corners, and an arm secured to eachpost and extending in opposite directions toward the center of thebench, of a swinging back for the bench having a bracket secured to eachend thereof and pivoted to the end of each arm, a guard on eachbracket,the guard of one bracket being disposed between the pivot andthe bench, and the guard of the other bracket extending in an oppositedirection above the pivot, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan,) New York, this 15th day ofAugust, 1904.

- WILLIAM P. MICHEL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM SCHULZ, FRANK v. BRIESEN.

